Common goals and local differences --- Accommodating local (national) differences in achieving SDGs is very much on the agenda - as you rightfully pointed out, countries have different concerns and different capabilities to address them. Countries themselves lead the implementation of SDGs and set up the plans. For climate change, there are the Nationally Determined Contributions by each state of the Paris Agreement. With respect to measuring achievement and milestones - the indicators are under scrutiny and are being revised. An example is the need to reassess how economic development is measured - current measurement via income per capita does not reflect impacts on environment or human rights to achieve this income.

Source author: Pavlina Ittelson pavlinai@diplomacy.edu